How do you clean a soiled driver's seat in your car...or, Close Encounters with Wildlife

You can probably guess from the title...I had a close encounter with a deer last night. Found out just how good my anti-lock brakes work. Left some black stripes on the pavement. Missed the deer- or should I say, it missed me - as I was stomped on the breaks and turned away from it, it came towards the car.

Also a good thing that it was almost 3am, and there was no traffic in sight when the incident happened. That's what I get for being a 3rd shift worker with a night off, and go shopping at the 24 hour Super-Walmart.

Im fine(other than having the poop frightened out of me - figuratively), car is fine, and now I have a pair of those whislte devices stuck to the front of my car...I know, there are people out there that will swear they are a waste of money, but I will tell you that the only times I've ever had close calls like last night was in vehicles that I did not have whistles on.

My parents both have been in deer/car accidents. Luckily, my dad's truck wasn't damaged outside of a ding in the bumper. In my mom's case, it was during rutting season and a Ford Bronco was invading a buck's territory. $1300 damage.

I had a relative who was driving an older man along a road in Michigan when a deer hit the car and came through the passenger's side of the windshield. As the old man came to his senses, he started moaning, "I can't move my legs." My relative replied, "That's because you've got half a deer in your lap."

WFTR
Bill

Some years ago I had a Firebird I had just repainted. Headed back into town after a late evening at friends', a couple miles out of town a four point blacktail (they are not very big) appeared before me. There was no missing the animal. He slid up the low nose of the car, up the windshield, and over the top. I stopped to check the location and condition of the deer. He was down in the ditch, and not moving. I approached, .357 in hand, and when I was about ten feet away he got up, turned my direction, made an angry sounding snort, then spun around and he was outa there.

So I just about streaked the driver's seat when I hit him, and again when he got up and ran. I checked the car and it looked like it had a pretty good scrape up the hood, but when I got home under the lights it turned out to be just a big ol' streak of poop, washed right off, leaving the new paint job undamaged. I hit a duck one time and it left a similar streak, but the duck didn't survive.

But hitting a deer, or any animal, can get nasty. It has happened before around here that they have gone right through the windshield, killing the driver or the passenger.

Dave in Eugene

What a dumba$$ animal a deer can be. I was on the road one night and he was to my right. As I appproached, he starting running parallel to the road. I thought it was going to be alright. Just as I neared him he turned his stupid head into my right headlight. $2200 worth of damage to '92 VW Golf. Still don't have all the wrinkles out.

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